The cockroach survival myth seems to have originated with the development of the atom bomb. In The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore, journalist Richard Schweid notes that roaches were reported to have survived the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading some to believe that they would inherit the Earth after a nuclear war. This idea spread during the 1960s, in part due to its dissemination by anti-nuclear activists. For example, a famous advertisement sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and referenced in a 1968 New York Times article read, in part, “A nuclear war, if it comes, will not be won by the Americans … the Russians … the Chinese. The winner of World War III will be the cockroach.”

And with time passing…a new human being would inherit the earth again…and I am saying “inherit” just by a habit.For..we do not own anything of Her.Well…we could ask Kafka….what he was thinking of when he wrote “Metamorphosis”.I find your work…terrible…not just for the approach of the "1984"´s social situation, but by the idea of these almost machine-creatures of hideous presence creating a new order, that owuld not develop but into our own nightmares.Rosa (is extraordinary, Larry. A hug….you have started very well this new cycle)

Thanks Rosa, I had to get the dark side of my brain cleared out for the new Year, now I can be more positive, have you read much Kafka, I tried but failed. A hug back

I love the idea and textures. The clockworks on the roaches backs are fantastic, and the darkness of it all is wonderfully “terrible”. I like darnkness every nce in awhile, it makes the lightness of being that much brighter.